While it may be somewhat unfair to comment on this proposal as we were previously paired up to analyse each-others work, on second reading and with more time to reflect I have come to appreciate its contribution much more fully.
Response to project proposal ‘“No Surrender” on Tour: Ulster Unionism’s Cultivation of International Support during the Troubles’
The topic selected for your project is a very interesting and under-explored one in recent historiography despite the intense grip The Troubles held over the British and Western public consciousness. What stands out is of course its emphasis of the
Week 8 blog
Wimmer and Schiller’s article acts as a critique of how social sciences have traditionally framed, and progressively begun to frame, migration. Their central claim is that much of twentieth century historiography operated under a belief in ‘methodological nationalism’, treating the
Statelessness From Below: White Russian Émigré Communities and the Negotiation of Refugee Governance in Paris and Shanghai, 1920–1939
The displacement of the White Russians following the Russian Civil War produced one of the largest and earliest politically defined refugee diasporas of the interwar period. This exodus provides a vantage point on the legal status and political identity of
Week 5
Transnational history is often presented as a solution to the so-called ‘methodological nationalism’ that was and is prevalent amongst the social sciences. However, Naumann’s Revisiting transnational actors from a spatial perspective and Alcalde’s Spatializing transnational history: European spaces and territories argue that this new methodology is far from something that should be adopted
Week 4 Blog
Adelman’s Is Global History still possible, or has it had its moment?, Green’s The Trials of Transnationalism, and the EUI collective text For a Fair(er) Global History all grapple with the question of whether global and transnational history can survive the apparent unravelling of the liberal order
Week 3 Blog
Conrad’s Globalisation and the Nation in Imperial Germany and Ureña Valerio’s Colonial Fantasies, Imperial Realities share a common argument, that the German nation was created through the entanglements its constituent populations had with global labour, colonialism, and transnational mobility, rather
Week 2 blog
Both Saunier and Christopher et al. agree in broad strokes that ‘transnational history’ is an as-yet unfixed and somewhat fluid methodology, and is better described as a point of view, or method of relational history, that can then be applied to almost any historical